Zipline Games, the Seattle startup behind the Moai platform for mobile games (and its own forthcoming casual game titles), is adding a game-industry heavyweight. Shane Kim, the former corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, is now a Zipline board member. CEO Todd Hooper also confirms that Zipline has added $400,000 in angel financing from existing investors, who include Founder’s Co-op, Benaroya Capital, and Groundspeak. The funding news was first reported by John Cook at GeekWire.
Author: Curt Woodward
Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft.
Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem.
A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.
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